Let's Build on the Paul Filibuster

Well, Sen. Graham, how about the idea that the Senate is getting
ready to confirm a nominee for CIA director who insists on turning a blind
eye to the radical ideology of terrorists aimed at destroying the United
States? Is that ridiculous, Sen. Graham?

In the meantime, Republicans must be united in their resolve to
stand up to President Obama on the nations fiscal and solvency crisis.
They need to build on, rather than undermine, the groundwork they
established in the sequestration negotiations and with Sen. Paul's
filibuster.

President Obama is nothing if not the consummate community
organizer. He has specific (and alarming) goals in focus and is always
strategizing. Sen. Graham et al. would do well to remember that.

Politico hints at what Obama has up his sleeve, and Graham and his
cohorts seem to be playing right into his hands. It reports that Obama
always knew Republicans wouldn't bend before the sequestration deadline
but that he's confident they'll accede to more revenues in time -- in
their pattern of caving, provided he keeps the pressure on.

One former Democratic strategist said Obama has always
miscalculated where the power among Republicans lies and has approached
those who aren't as weak-kneed as others. Well, perhaps Politico was
prescient here in anticipating an Obama overture to Republicans who might
bend at dinner.

No matter how many liberal commentators insist to Bill O'Reilly
that Obama really supports specific spending cuts, the fact is that he has
had four-plus years to take the lead or even follow the lead on this
critical issue and he's refused.

Then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner revealed that the
administration had no plans to reform entitlements in his congressional
testimony. Obama's projected budgets have been consistently reckless. His
actual deficits have all been immorally astronomical. He extracted tax
increases and still refuses to play ball on spending. Neither he nor his
Democratic Senate will even submit a budget, and he's even demanding more
spending. His only budgetary interest is in further punishing the rich and
further expanding entitlements. If he does succeed in extracting more
revenues, it will reward his spending to date and just encourage him to
spend more.

Any Republicans gullible enough to believe Obama's tall tale that
he wants a "balanced approach" needs to wake up and join the reality
community of those who are planting their feet in the ground to resist
Obama's upcoming propaganda blitz to make them cave. Do not even think
about capitulating. You will have enormous support if you fight -- and the
response to Sen. Paul's filibuster is but a foreshadowing of what is to
come if you hold firm.